The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back in a "provisional, read-only manner", after a DDoS attack on the Internet Archive on October 9 and a data breach (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Mediagazer: The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack on the Internet Archive on October 9 and a data breach (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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The Verge:

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back in a “provisional, read-only manner”, after a DDoS attack on the Internet Archive on October 9 and a data breach— The Internet Archive is back online in a read-only state after a cyberattack brought down the digital library and Wayback Machine last week.
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Brewster Kahle /
@brewster_kahle: The @internetarchive's Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner. Sorry, no Save Page Now yet. Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again. Please be gentle https://web.archive.org/ More as it happens.

Christopher Harper /
Tom's Hardware: Internet Archive is back up in a provisional “read-only” state since cyberattack

Jon Brodkin /
Ars Technica: The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online

Lance Whitney /
ZDNET: Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after data breach - with a catch @tariqkrim: The Internet Archive is the closest thing to a public service for the Internet. Its hacking is a sad day for the online world.

Shannon Connellan /
Mashable: Internet Archive is back up as read-only after data breach

John Callaham /
Neowin: The Internet Archives' Wayback Machine site is back online but in a read-only mode for now

Jessica Bursztynsky /
Fast Company: The Internet Archive is back online after a cyberattack

Will Shanklin /
Engadget: Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back online after last week's DDoS attacks

Brewster Kahle /
@brewster_kahle: @waybackmachine volume is back to normal: 1,500 requests per second. Sorry we don't have other services yet. (Your good wishes have helped a good team @internetarchive ) more as it happens.

Mary Kate Carr /
AV Club: The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after hack

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: The Internet Archive is Back Online After Massive Hack Exposed 31 Million users Information

Ashley King /
Digital Music News: Internet Archive Experiences Catastrophic Hack, 31 Million Accounts Impacted — Wayback Machine Down

Variety:

Fox Deportes and NBCUniversal's Telemundo will each produce separate Spanish-language broadcasts of Super Bowl LIX in 2025, an unusual arrangement— Each year, Spanish-speaking sports fans can usually find one Spanish-language simulcast of the Super Bowl. This year, there will be two.

Discussion:
The Desk, @jeremydstanley.com, Sports Media Watch, Deadline, TVNewsCheck, The Hollywood Reporter and Barrett Media

Discussion:

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: Fox to license Super Bowl LIX to Comcast's Telemundo

Jeremy Stanley /
@jeremydstanley.com: when I lived there, I loved how Mexico had two separate broadcasts of the World Series — one on Fox Sports and one on ESPN. Fox had Fox graphics, ESPN took MLB Network's world feed. glad we're getting some diversification here! give the rights to everyone! [embedded post]

Dade Hayes /
Deadline: Super Bowl Poised To Reach Its Biggest Spanish-Language Audience Ever Due To Fox Deportes-Telemundo Rights Deal

Mark K. Miller /
TVNewsCheck: Fox Deportes & Telemundo's 2025 Super Bowl Spanish-Language Distribution To Be Largest Ever

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: Fox and NBCUniversal Cut Deal to Bring 2025 Super Bowl to Telemundo

Press Gazette:

Filing: the UK's PA Media Group reports 2023 revenue up 6% YoY to £112.1M and operating profit up 53% YoY to £8.3M, as it grows through revenue diversification— PA Media Group has grown its revenues every year since 2016 helped by a series of acquisitions.

PetaPixel:

Adobe says its Firefly Video Model is the first “commercially safe” text-to-video generative AI model that was trained on licensed and public domain content— Adobe unveiled its Firefly Video Model last month, previewing a variety of new generative AI video features.

Discussion:

Karthik Mudaliar /
Neowin: Adobe is making sure all of its products have AI features with these new announcements

Prakhar Khanna /
Forbes: ‘We Do Not Scrape The Internet’: Adobe Firefly Debuts With Focus On Responsible AI Training

Pradeep Viswanathan /
Neowin: Adobe announces Firefly Video Model that can generate commercially safe videos @joematoske: @EstebanToroM Hi Esteban. Branding Firefly as “commercially safe” repositions Adobe from a creators toolkit to a b2b service- which increasingly seems to be Adobe's prerogative.

Liz Miller /
@lizkmiller: “We all know that AI is only as good as the data on which it's trained. We took on the technical challenge of training our #Firefly generative AI models only on licensed and public domain content so that we can design a commercially safe solution.” @snarayen @Adobe #AdobeMAX [image]

Joshua Sun /
@joshgong10: Adobe released Adobe Firefly Video today, and it is as clean as videos from Meta. They trained the model on in-house data, claiming it to be commercially safe. The videos mainly rely on two techniques: 1) panning or moving from a large tiled initial image; and 2) using a close-up [image]

Alexandru Costin /
@acostin: Our @Adobe Firefly Video model, the first designed for commercial use, will help our creative community tell a lot of stories. Couldn't be happier for the team that make it happen. Also, I've been to #AdobeMAX since 2003 and I love our customer reaction to magical tech ;). Drives [video]

Anthony Duignan-Cabrera /
Silicon Valley Business …: Adobe rolls out extensive AI features, including a video model, for Firefly

Stephen Nellis /
Reuters: Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta

Andrew Tarantola /
Digital Trends: You can now generate AI videos right in Premiere Pro

Vishal Mathur /
Hindustan Times: Video Gen AI battles begin, as Adobe releases Firefly Video model into the world

Paul Thurrott /
Thurrott: Adobe Announces Firefly Video Model, More AI Advances

Maxwell Zeff /
TechCrunch: Adobe invites you to ‘embrace the tech’ with Firefly's new video generator

Jess Weatherbed /
The Verge: Adobe's AI video model is here, and it's already inside Premiere Pro

Semafor:

Yashica Olden, who was Condé Nast's first head of diversity, equity, and inclusion, quietly left in June 2024, after internal tensions over the Israel-Hamas war— The Scoop — Condé Nast's high-profile head of diversity quietly stepped down in June amid bitter internal tensions …

Discussion:
The Daily Caller, @jessesingal, @semaforben, New York Post and @maxwelltani

Discussion:

Robert McGreevy /
The Daily Caller: Jewish Employees Accuse DEI Chief Condé Nast Of Antisemitism

Jesse Singal /
@jessesingal: Who woulda thunk it https://t.co/...

Ariel Zilber /
New York Post: Jewish staffers at Condé Nast accuse ex-DEI chief of antisemitism: report

Financial Times:

An interview with IAC chair Barry Diller on his Paramount bid being “more of a duty than a desire”, why Hollywood's hold on entertainment is “gone”, and more— IAC chair hits out at Trump and warns of power shift to Big Tech in film and TV

Discussion:
Benzinga, @tvgrimreaper, @arogdc, @jonthn_wheatley, @tonytassell and Business Insider

Discussion:

Chris Katje /
Benzinga: Billionaire Trump Supporters ‘Refuse To Talk About The Character Of...Rotten Person’: Media Mogul Barry Diller Sounds Off On Elon Musk, Others @tvgrimreaper: I don't remember the last time I agreed with Barry Diller, but here we are. (although including Apple in that list of “controllers” is 🤦🏻 ♂️) [image]

Alex Rogers /
@arogdc: As media companies have consolidated and tech companies have moved on to Tinsel Town turf, “you can't even find the whites of the eyes of the person who makes the decision,” says Barry Diller. https://www.ft.com/... -@MattGarrahan

Jonathan Wheatley /
@jonthn_wheatley: Finding it hard to concentrate beyond the third para para: Forbes estimates his net worth is $4.6bn, allowing him luxuries such as a big boat...as well as the funds to clone his late dog — a Jack Russell mix called Shannon — five times over. https://www.ft.com/... via @ft

Tony Tassell /
@tonytassell: Terrific interview here by @MattGarrahan with Barry Diller on the fading grip of Hollywood and much more, including some acerbic critiques of Trump and those plutocrats who support him and what went down with Bianca Jagger at Studio 54 https://www.ft.com/...

Variety:

Sources: Disney plans to simulcast six broadcasts of Monday Night Football, typically a mainstay of ESPN, on the ABC broadcast network— Disney is taking a strategy that lent it a boost during the recent Hollywood labor strikes and working to apply it to its normal course of business.

Discussion:

Josh Sorokach /
Decider: ‘Monday Night Football’ Schedule: Start Time, Channel, Where To Watch Tonight's Bills-Jets ‘MNF’ Game Live

Luke Bouma /
Cord Cutters News: ABC Expands “Monday Night Football” Simulcasts, Bringing More NFL Action to Network Television

Brad Pareso /
Adweek: ABC Adds 6 More MNF Simulcasts for 2024 Inside Radio: Trump's Call For FCC License Revocations Should Be ‘A Wake-Up Call For All Broadcasters.’

Mike Snider /
USA Today: ‘Threats against free speech’: FCC chair condemns Trump's call for CBS to lose license

Matthew Keys /
The Desk: ABC to simulcast more “Monday Night Football” games

Andrew Bucholtz /
Awful Announcing: Somehow, six more Monday Night Football simulcasts returned to ABC

Lucas Manfredi /
The Wrap: ‘Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,’ ‘Scamanda’ Docuseries, ‘Press Your Luck’ Delayed to 2025 on ABC

Rick Porter /
The Hollywood Reporter: ABC Bulks Up ‘Monday Night Football’ Slate

Semafor:

Q&A with ATTN co-founder and co-CEO Matthew Segal on the current social ecosystem, vertical video optimization, trying to be the “HBO of short-form”, and more— The News — Born in 2014, the media company ATTN is the product of the Facebook video age …

The Guardian:

BBC DG Tim Davie says funding cuts to BBC World Service have helped state-funded media operators from Russia and China broadcast “unchallenged propaganda”— BBC director-general Tim Davie to warn world facing ‘all-out assault on truth’ as state-funded media operators broadcast unchallenged

RELATED:

The Guardian:
The BBC launches an independent review of its workplace culture after scandals around presenters like Huw Edwards; DG Tim Davie says no one is “indispensable”

Discussion:

Max Goldbart /
Deadline: BBC Boss Bans The Word “Talent”

New York Times:

A look at Pod Save America, which gets 20M monthly downloads, and its parent company Crooked Media, as both have grown into institutions in liberal politics— The hosts of the political podcast have outlasted the wave of anti-Trump #Resistance that made it popular. That's where things get complicated.

Discussion:
@bernstein and Fox News

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Joe Bernstein /
@bernstein: For @NYTStyles, I profiled @PodSaveAmerica, which has outlived the Resistance moment that made it huge, and, by helping its ever-loyal Democratic audience process its emotions, turned into something genuinely influential https://www.nytimes.com/...

Press Gazette:

The Evening Standard reports revenue down 15% YoY to £26.8m in the FY ending October 1, 2023 and a loss of £20.6M, its highest loss since going free in 2009— The Evening Standard has reported its highest losses since going free in 2009, for the year before it decided to drop its daily print edition.

Discussion:
Financial Times, @baekdal and The Guardian

Discussion:

Daniel Thomas /
Financial Times: Evening Standard kept afloat with £44mn in loans from Evgeny Lebedev and other investors

Thomas Baekdal /
@baekdal: Ouch... [image]

The Wrap:

Legendary Entertainment buys out Wanda Group's remaining 60% equity stake in the studio; Legendary board will be evenly split between management and Apollo— As part of the move, the “Dune” and “Godzilla” studio's board will be evenly split between management and private equity firm Apollo …

Discussion:
Bloomberg, @xpangler, @mtfiii, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter and Reuters

Discussion:

Thomas Buckley /
Bloomberg: Apollo-Backed Legendary Entertainment Buys Out Wanda Group Stake

Todd Spangler /
@xpangler: The pact leaves Legendary and Apollo Global Management in control https://variety.com/...

Michael T Ford III /
@mtfiii: Legendary Entertainment Buys Out Wanda, With An Eye Toward M&A The ‘Dune’ and ‘Godzilla’ studio had been owned by Wanda since 2016, with Apollo joining as a minority investor in 2022. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...

Samantha Masunaga /
Los Angeles Times: Legendary buys out China's Wanda ownership stake

Jill Goldsmith /
Deadline: Legendary Entertainment Buys Out Wanda's Remaining Ownership Stake In New Era For Studio

Alex Weprin /
The Hollywood Reporter: Legendary Entertainment Buys Out Wanda, With An Eye Toward M&A

New Yorker:

A profile of Bang Si-hyuk, a South Korean music producer and chairman of Hybe Corporation who is taking his formula for creating K-pop idols like BTS to the US— Chairman Bang, the man behind BTS, is bringing his formula for creating K-pop idols to America. — Scooter Braun was in a tailspin.

Discussion:
@cfnchng, @christataetae, @thelionmutters, @intrnl_mnologue, @sugatheartist and @themarkrussell

Discussion:

Cat-Cat /
@cfnchng: It's a LONG read but eye opening. You'll def feel icky for playing into this machine but we all need the reminder that at the end of the day, it is a business. You might get a subscribe popup but just click away. it doesn't hide the article. https://www.newyorker.com/...

Christia /
@christataetae: Whether you like Bang or not, highly recommend you read. Very much gives an insight into the business, what our guys are dealing with and how fans are..."managed." https://www.newyorker.com/... @thelionmutters: Loved this article by the @NewYorker because it equally exposes the artificiality of K-pop but also why it works and what is great about it. This was a great piece to read. https://www.newyorker.com/... @intrnl_mnologue: Hybe is heavily invested not in music but in perfecting the formula to exploit the parasocial relationship between fans and idols. This is one reason i got turned off by kpop, because it isn't about music, but a business approach to get fans to spend more https://www.newyorker.com/...

Paula /